Cheshire CheckPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cobham County Antrim Crewe Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	48
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	4	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.762 %	3.191 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£460	£207
Average daily rate	£460	£207
% change on same period last year	+122.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£207
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£312
% change on same period last year	+12.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-5.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.44	£34.33
% change on same period last year	-25.89 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	525	376
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.697 %	0.386 %
Daily rates quoted	170	106
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£313
Average daily rate	£361	£323
% change on same period last year	+11.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.24	£23.71
Average hourly rate	£25.60	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.96	£28.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.18	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
CheckPoint North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Check Point Software Technologies.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CheckPoint across the Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CheckPoint across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CheckPoint across the Cheshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CheckPoint within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Crewe	-	1	-	-
Wilmslow	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing CheckPoint also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CheckPoint.

1 5 (45.45 %) Firewall 2 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 3 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (27.27 %) Intranet 3 3 (27.27 %) Document Management 3 3 (27.27 %) Project Planning 4 2 (18.18 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (18.18 %) QMS 4 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 4 2 (18.18 %) Finance 4 2 (18.18 %) CMS 4 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 4 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 4 2 (18.18 %) CCNA 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows

5 1 (9.091 %) ADSL 5 1 (9.091 %) LAN 5 1 (9.091 %) WAN 5 1 (9.091 %) SMTP 5 1 (9.091 %) VPN 5 1 (9.091 %) DNS 5 1 (9.091 %) SLA 5 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 5 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) CCSE 5 1 (9.091 %) Information Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Websense 5 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (9.091 %) assyst

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing CheckPoint also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CheckPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 5 (45.45 %) Firewall 2 3 (27.27 %) Intranet 3 1 (9.091 %) Cisco IPT 3 1 (9.091 %) ADSL 3 1 (9.091 %) LAN 3 1 (9.091 %) WAN 3 1 (9.091 %) SMTP 3 1 (9.091 %) VPN 3 1 (9.091 %) DNS	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (18.18 %) Coordinator 1 2 (18.18 %) Project Coordinator 2 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Support 2 1 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Server Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Support Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Firewall Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Firewall Consultant 2 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 2 1 (9.091 %) Development Specialist 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Applications Packager	Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Document Management 1 3 (27.27 %) Project Planning 2 2 (18.18 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (18.18 %) Project Management 2 2 (18.18 %) QMS 3 1 (9.091 %) Information Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Performance Management	Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 2 2 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 1 (9.091 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 2 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 3 1 (9.091 %) Websense 3 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Citrix